biography
pronunciation:
[kah(r)nofskee]
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| lived:
| (1903–75)
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| biography:
| Librarian and educator, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He studied at the University of Missouri (1927 BA) and at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago (1932 PhD), where he remained as a professor until his retirement (1971). During 1941–63 he was managing editor of the Library Quarterly. He became known as a surveyor of libraries and their problems, and conducted surveys of libraries throughout the USA. For UNESCO he produced reports of library education in Israel (1957) and Greece (1962). Particularly important among his many journal articles is ‘The Obligations and Responsibilities of the Librarian Concerning Censorship’ (1950), which has been frequently reprinted and which arose from his position as chairman of the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee. |
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